Global warming and the UUA's Statement of Conscience
Global warming issue heats up
With a summer that has included Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a coast-to-coast heat wave it's no wonder that global warming has been a hot issue in the media. In Unitarian Universalism, delegates at June's General Assembly in St. Louis passed a Statement of Conscience on global warming that is also getting some attention.
Bill McKibben, writing about global warming for the Christian Century, mentions the progress made by people such as UU the Rev. Fred Small and his Religious Witness for the Earth. The magazine also picked up a Religion News Service story about the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations' Statement of Conscience about global warming. (The Christian Century - 7.11.06, 7.25.06)
The Mansfield News in Massachusetts, in its coverage of the General Assembly, highlighted the adoption of a formal Statement of Conscience on the "Threat of Global Warming," which commits UUs to "promoting individual and collective actions to slow and ultimately reverse global warming." (Mansfield News - Milford, MA 7.14.06)
And Delaware's News Journal profiles chemist and activist Chad Tolman, a UU who helped create the global warming Statement of Conscience. Tolman believes that global warming will be the century's "dominant issue," dwarfing all others. (The News Journal - Wilmington, DE 7.15.06)
See also: UUA General Assembly confronts global warming (uuworld.org - 6.30.06)
With a summer that has included Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a coast-to-coast heat wave it's no wonder that global warming has been a hot issue in the media. In Unitarian Universalism, delegates at June's General Assembly in St. Louis passed a Statement of Conscience on global warming that is also getting some attention.
Bill McKibben, writing about global warming for the Christian Century, mentions the progress made by people such as UU the Rev. Fred Small and his Religious Witness for the Earth. The magazine also picked up a Religion News Service story about the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations' Statement of Conscience about global warming. (The Christian Century - 7.11.06, 7.25.06)
The Mansfield News in Massachusetts, in its coverage of the General Assembly, highlighted the adoption of a formal Statement of Conscience on the "Threat of Global Warming," which commits UUs to "promoting individual and collective actions to slow and ultimately reverse global warming." (Mansfield News - Milford, MA 7.14.06)
And Delaware's News Journal profiles chemist and activist Chad Tolman, a UU who helped create the global warming Statement of Conscience. Tolman believes that global warming will be the century's "dominant issue," dwarfing all others. (The News Journal - Wilmington, DE 7.15.06)
See also: UUA General Assembly confronts global warming (uuworld.org - 6.30.06)
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